Offers a collection of knitting projects that can be completed in under thirty minutes, including hats, keyrings, picture frames, hair accessories, and decorative items.

"Popular and prolific author and knitwear designer Kotomi Hayashi presents 55 innovative stitch designs--specifically for those who have never tried Japanese-style knitting before. These include re-imagined modern variations on traditional stitches as well as Hayashi's own innovative inventions, which incorporate influences from her travels all around the world"--

Presents a guide that features 150 block patterns and 10 designs for garments, accessories, and afghans that mix-and-match knitted blocks, with additional instructions on creating intricate counterpanes and lace and animal-print motifs.

Essentially Feminine Knits features a collection of 25 must-have garments and accessories for every occasion, casual to dressy. Designer and author Lene Holme Samsøe's patterns express her joy in knitting and embody a sometimes delicate, but always fashionably ladylike approach while relaying her inspiration-the sea that borders her home and it's subtle, simplistic colors. Focusing on Samsøe's signature botanical lace motifs, this collection offers...

Provides knitting projects for hats of many different colors and textures and teaches a number of techniques--including purl and lace; stranded colorwork and slip stitch; and double knit.